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DOI	10.1080/15564894.2018.1438538
	The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa
	Dewar, Genevieve; Marsh, Erik J.
通讯作者	Dewar, G (corresponding author), Univ Toronto Scarborough, Dept Anthropol, Toronto, ON, Canada. ; Dewar, G (corresponding author), Univ Witwatersrand, Rock Art Res Inst, Johannesburg, South Africa.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	1556-4894
EISSN	1556-1828
出版年	2019
卷号	14 期号:1 页码:17-45
英文摘要	This paper evaluates chronological trends in the presence and absence of domestic animal bone (sheep, goat, and cattle) and pottery in Namaqualand, the proposed gateway to the rest of South Africa for early herders or hunter-gatherers with sheep and ceramics. We update date calibrations with local Delta R corrections and mixtures of recent calibration curves and include five previously unpublished dates. We use histograms of calibrated medians, sorted in 100-year bins, to assess sustained regional patterns with dates associated with domestic animal bone and pottery (n = 73). While too small to be useful as a population proxy, the current set of dates does reveal three pulses of occupation separated by two clear gaps, which we evaluate with a Bayesian model of three sequential phases. The model's boundaries are used as estimates of the dates of Early (AD 80-210), Middle (AD 490-790), and Late (AD 1180-1690) occupational phases separated by two substantial lapses of 280 and 380 years, respectively. The alternating phases of presence and absence are suggestively correlated with climate shifts, leading to a discussion of the idea that effective moisture was a crucial factor in choosing whether to occupy Namaqualand. The set of archaeological dates has greater temporal and spatial resolution than many regional climate data, so we suggest that these trends may more accurately reflect the variable conditions specific to Namaqualand, at least until they are refined by future climate research.
英文关键词	Bayesian models radiocarbon calibration early pottery and sheep Namaqualand
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000469997800002
WOS关键词	NORTHERN CAPE-PROVINCE ; HUNTER-GATHERERS ; RADIOCARBON AGE ; WESTERN-CAPE ; PASTORALISM ; ARCHAEOLOGY ; CLIMATE ; HERDERS ; SITES ; DISTRIBUTIONS
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362146
作者单位	[Dewar, Genevieve] Univ Toronto Scarborough, Dept Anthropol, Toronto, ON, Canada; [Dewar, Genevieve] Univ Witwatersrand, Rock Art Res Inst, Johannesburg, South Africa; [Marsh, Erik J.] Univ Nacl Cuyo, CONICET, Lab Paleoecol Humana, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Mendoza, Argentina
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dewar, Genevieve,Marsh, Erik J.. The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa[J],2019,14(1):17-45.
APA	Dewar, Genevieve,&Marsh, Erik J..(2019).The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa.JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY,14(1),17-45.
MLA	Dewar, Genevieve,et al."The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa".JOURNAL OF ISLAND & COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY 14.1(2019):17-45.